Non-fiction
Tuesday Newsday
The purpose of Tuesday Newsday is to increase the amount of nonfiction that students read within our reading program, further expand students’ reading repertoire, work on summarizing non-fiction text, as well as read current events.
Students will be asked to bring in a newspaper or magazine article to share with the class. The subject matter should be appropriate for the grade level audience.
In 5th grade, Tuesday Newsday is elevated. Students are asked to select two articles on similar topics. Students are working to synthesize the information in the two articles into one summary.
Critical Read
In connection with an article, students ...
1. Write a reflection
2. Identify the author's purpose
3. Work on the word level and identify specific words that they author selected for specific purposes. (Author's Craft)
4. Identify the text structure
5. Write Thinkmarks while reading the article (Below are the Thinkmarks)
Predictions: What do you think will happen next?
Connections:
Text-to-self
Text-to-text
Text-to-world
Questions: What are you wondering about?
Opinion: Write an opinion about something that has come up in the book.
Main idea or theme
Inference: Use prior knowledge to write an inference.
Identify descriptive language or figurative language
